Jerry L. Steering, Esq. – Specialist In Suing Police Officers Since 1984. “The Young Lawyer Knows the Law, the Old Lawyer Knows the Judge.” Mr. Steering has been suing the police officers for false arrest, excessive force and malicious prosecution, since 1984. He has also defended bogus criminal “resistance offense’ case since 1984. Mr. Steering is also a published legal scholar on important topics of Constitutional Law. See, Accomplice Accusations in the Criminal Process – The Application of Sixth Amendment Tests for the Reliability of Hearsay Evidence to Probable Cause Determinations; 16 Rutgers L..J. (1984-1985), and he well understands the subtleties and practical realities of guiding your bogus criminal prosecution to a successful outcome, and thereafter suing the police for falsely arresting and beating you, and having the gaul to then procure your bogus criminal prosecution for some “resistance offense”, to shift the blame from him / her to you, for their having to have broken your skull open with their baton. There’s an old saying in the legal profession: “A young lawyer knows the law, and an old lawyer knows the Judge.” Mr. Steering knows, or knows about, most of the Article III United States District Judges in federal court in the Southern California area; especially those District Judges in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The Central District of California includes Los Angeles County, Orange County, Riverside County, San Bernadino County, Ventura County, Santa Barbara County and San Lus Obispo County. Mr. Steering knows which U.S. District Judge is going to be sympathetic to persons suing the police, and those who are not. You cannot “Judge Shop” in federal court; you don’t get to pick your judge. Moreover, unfortunately, a judge can pretty much make a case result in a verdict, for or against police misconduct victims. You may get the Judge reversed, or even admonished by an Appellate Court, but there are certain District Judges (and, unfortunately, Court of Appeals Judges, who feel compelled to torpedo your case. If you getting a deliberately unfair trial from a District Judge and lose the same, don’t believe that the United States Court of Appeals (in the Western States, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals), is necessarily going to come to your rescue. Mr. Steering understands the ever changing legal landscape, and understands how to play this Contempt of Cop game to get you justice; both in the form of vindication in the bogus criminal action brought against you, and compensation and vindication in the form of monetary compensation for the police outrages perpetrated against you. Mr. Steering’s law practice serving Southern California. Mr. Steering is also licensed to practice law in the State of Georgia and has practiced in federal courts outside of California pro hac vice, including the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Steering is also a Members of the Bars of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court (since 1987). The majority of Mr. Steering’s firm’s law practice is defending bogus “contempt of cop” criminal actions, usually followed by Mr. Steering filing and prosecuting lawsuits against the very same police officers who beat-up, falsely arrested and falsely accused the innocent of criminal conduct, to protect themselves and their employing agency from liability to the innocent for their outrages. Most of Mr. Steering’s criminal and civil cases involve core Bill of Rights type issues; the difference between living in a free society of a police state. Most of these federal civil rights cases involve police violation of person(s) fourth amendment rights (i.e unreasonable searches of persons and their places and effects, and unreasonable seizures of person (false arrest and unreasonable force, procuring bogus and malicious criminal prosecutions) and first amendment violations (retaliation for protected speech and to petition for redress and various other “Constitutional Torts” , including police whistleblowing cases (Cal. Labor Code Section 1102.5.) If you want to know what do to if you’ve been falsely arrested, retaliated against for exercise of your constitutional rights, beaten-up by the police or maliciously prosecuted, please contact us at (949) 474-1849 or jerrysteering@yahoo.com. Thank you for visiting with us, and best of luck. Even if you have a legal question that’s important to you, and you just need lawyer input, we’ll be glad to answer your questions. Thank you again for visiting with us. If you need to speak with a lawyer about your particular legal situation, please call the Law Offices of Jerry L. Steering for a free telephone consultation. Jerry L. Steering, Esq., Suing Bad Cops And Defending Bogus Criminal Cases Since 1984 What to Do If You Have Been Falsely Arrested or Beaten-up by the Police – Click Here Click on “Home“, above, or the other pages shown, for the information or assistance that we can provide for you. Jerry L. Steering with Diane Sawyer, Co-counsel* Bob Dole, and former partner** Melvin M. Belli
